# Solar eclipse of November 2, 1967

A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Thursday, November 2, 1967, with a magnitude of 1.0126. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring about 4 hours after perigee (on November 2, 1967, at 1:50 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger.
It will be unusual in that while it is a total solar eclipse, it is not a central solar eclipse. A non-central eclipse is one where the center-line of totality does not intersect the surface of the Earth (when the gamma is between 0.9972 and 1.0260). Instead, the center line passes just above the Earth's surface. This rare type occurs when totality is only visible at sunset or sunrise in a polar region.
While totality was not visible for any land masses, a partial eclipse was visible for Southern Africa and Antarctica. This was the first of 55 umbral solar eclipses of Solar Saros 152.

## Eclipse details

Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.
November 2, 1967 Solar Eclipse Times :
| Event | Time (UTC) |
| First Penumbral External Contact | 1967 November 02 at 03:39:02.7 UTC |
| First Umbral External Contact | 1967 November 02 at 05:26:47.4 UTC |
| Greatest Eclipse | 1967 November 02 at 05:38:56.2 UTC |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 1967 November 02 at 05:48:56.9 UTC |
| Last Umbral External Contact | 1967 November 02 at 05:50:36.0 UTC |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 1967 November 02 at 06:25:04.9 UTC |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 1967 November 02 at 07:38:31.3 UTC |
November 2, 1967 Solar Eclipse Parameters :
| Parameter | Value |
| Eclipse Magnitude | 1.01261 |
| Eclipse Obscuration | - |
| Gamma | −1.00067 |
| Sun Right Ascension | 14h26m52.0s |
| Sun Declination | -14°32'08.6" |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 16'07.1" |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.9" |
| Moon Right Ascension | 14h25m07.9s |
| Moon Declination | -15°28'04.1" |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 16'44.2" |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 1°01'25.4" |
| ΔT | 38.1 s |

## Eclipse season

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.
Eclipse season of October–November 1967 :
| October 18 Ascending node (full moon) | November 2 Descending node (new moon) |
| Total lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 126 | Total solar eclipse Solar Saros 152 |

## Related eclipses
### Eclipses in 1967

* A total lunar eclipse on April 24.
* A partial solar eclipse on May 9.
* A total lunar eclipse on October 18.
* A total solar eclipse on November 2.

### Metonic

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 14, 1964
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971

### Tzolkinex

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 20, 1960
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 13, 1974

### Half-Saros

* Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of October 27, 1958
* Followed by: Lunar eclipse of November 6, 1976

### Tritos

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 2, 1956
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 2, 1978

### Solar Saros 152

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 21, 1949
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 12, 1985

### Inex

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 21, 1938
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 12, 1996

### Triad

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 31, 1880
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 2, 2054

### Solar eclipses of 1964–1967

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.
The partial solar eclipses on January 14, 1964 and July 9, 1964 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 1964 to 1967 :
| Ascending node | Ascending node | Ascending node | Descending node | Descending node | Descending node |
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma |
| 117 | June 10, 1964 Partial | −1.1393 | 122 | December 4, 1964 Partial | 1.1193 |
| 127 | May 30, 1965 Total | −0.4225 | 132 | November 23, 1965 Annular | 0.3906 |
| 137 | May 20, 1966 Annular | 0.3467 | 142 | November 12, 1966 Total | −0.33 |
| 147 | May 9, 1967 Partial | 1.1422 | 152 | November 2, 1967 Total (non-central) | 1.0007 |

### Saros 152

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 152, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 70 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 26, 1805. It contains total eclipses from November 2, 1967 through September 14, 2490; hybrid eclipses from September 26, 2508 through October 17, 2544; and annular eclipses from October 29, 2562 through June 16, 2941. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on August 20, 3049. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.
The longest duration of totality will be produced by member 30 at 5 minutes, 16 seconds on June 9, 2328, and the longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 53 at 5 minutes, 20 seconds on February 16, 2743. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.
Series members 1–22 occur between 1805 and 2200: :
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| July 26, 1805 | August 6, 1823 | August 16, 1841 |
| 4 | 5 | 6 |
| August 28, 1859 | September 7, 1877 | September 18, 1895 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 |
| September 30, 1913 | October 11, 1931 | October 21, 1949 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 |
| November 2, 1967 | November 12, 1985 | November 23, 2003 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 |
| December 4, 2021 | December 15, 2039 | December 26, 2057 |
| 16 | 17 | 18 |
| January 6, 2076 | January 16, 2094 | January 29, 2112 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 |
| February 8, 2130 | February 19, 2148 | March 2, 2166 |
| 22 |
| March 12, 2184 |

### Metonic series

The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.
22 eclipse events between March 27, 1884 and August 20, 1971 :
| March 27–29 | January 14 | November 1–2 | August 20–21 | June 8 |
| 108 | 110 | 112 | 114 | 116 |
| March 27, 1884 | | | August 20, 1895 | June 8, 1899 |
| 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
| March 29, 1903 | January 14, 1907 | November 2, 1910 | August 21, 1914 | June 8, 1918 |
| 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
| March 28, 1922 | January 14, 1926 | November 1, 1929 | August 21, 1933 | June 8, 1937 |
| 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
| March 27, 1941 | January 14, 1945 | November 1, 1948 | August 20, 1952 | June 8, 1956 |
| 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 |
| March 27, 1960 | January 14, 1964 | November 2, 1967 | August 20, 1971 |

### Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
The partial solar eclipse on October 24, 2098 (part of Saros 164) is also a part of this series but is not included in the table below.
Series members between 1801 and 2011 :
| February 11, 1804 (Saros 137) | January 10, 1815 (Saros 138) | December 9, 1825 (Saros 139) | November 9, 1836 (Saros 140) | October 9, 1847 (Saros 141) |
| September 7, 1858 (Saros 142) | August 7, 1869 (Saros 143) | July 7, 1880 (Saros 144) | June 6, 1891 (Saros 145) | May 7, 1902 (Saros 146) |
| April 6, 1913 (Saros 147) | March 5, 1924 (Saros 148) | February 3, 1935 (Saros 149) | January 3, 1946 (Saros 150) | December 2, 1956 (Saros 151) |
| November 2, 1967 (Saros 152) | October 2, 1978 (Saros 153) | August 31, 1989 (Saros 154) | July 31, 2000 (Saros 155) | July 1, 2011 (Saros 156) |

### Inex series

This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
Series members between 1801 and 2200 :
| February 11, 1823 (Saros 147) | January 21, 1852 (Saros 148) | December 31, 1880 (Saros 149) |
| December 12, 1909 (Saros 150) | November 21, 1938 (Saros 151) | November 2, 1967 (Saros 152) |
| October 12, 1996 (Saros 153) | September 21, 2025 (Saros 154) | September 2, 2054 (Saros 155) |
| August 13, 2083 (Saros 156) | July 23, 2112 (Saros 157) | July 3, 2141 (Saros 158) |
| June 14, 2170 (Saros 159) | May 24, 2199 (Saros 160) | |